"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
More Honoré de Balzac quotes
"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
"Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
"Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man...